The Global Campus of Human Rights is an inter-disciplinary centre of academic excellence supported by the EU. It strives to promote human rights and democratisation through education, training programmes and research, and via a global network of regional partners in Argentina, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, South Africa and Thailand. The Global Campus’ main headquarters are based in Venice, Italy.

The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) is the main teaching programme of the Global Campus. Established in 1997, EMA is the oldest Master’s programme supported by the European Union. Today it counts on the participation of 42 prestigious universities and human rights centres from all member states of the European Union.